Is Biden approaching his Cody Jarrett moment?

 

Is Biden approaching his Cody Jarrett moment?

President Joe Biden, with 63 days to go till retirement, just made a decision possibly worse than any made by his 45 predecessors. He greenlighted Ukraine to use long range US missiles to strike deep into Russia. The Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 190 miles, are fired by US-made multiple rocket launch systems, including the HIMARS.

But Ukraine military cannot fire the ATACMS without the US providing target coordinates. That would represent direct US attacks on Russia using Ukraine proxies to fire them. President Putin make clear this risks nuclear war. He went further and revised Russian nuclear strategy to declare that any nuclear power supplying and supporting attacks on Russian soil by a non-nuclear state as putting that nuclear state at war with Russia.

Knowing his proxy war against Russia is a lost cause, Biden has apparently become delusionally reckless with Mother Earth. A month ago Biden blinked when UK PM Starmer came calling to greenlight direct Ukraine strikes on Russia with long range UK missiles. He heeded Putin’s warnings, likely avoiding nuclear war then.

What’s changed? Has he become so mentally degraded he cannot comprehend the enormity of his destructive decision? Is he terrified about losing another war in his last year after Afghanistan in his first year?

Biden has spent his entire 52 year public career promoting America’s self-proclaimed role as the world’s only indispensable nation. Biden’s lifelong credo is: America…top of the world.

 

That calls to mind Jimmy Cagney playing psychotic killer Cody Jarret in the 1950 crime classic ‘White Heat.’ Jarrett, who was always seeking to get ‘top of the world, ended up screaming “Top of the world, Ma” as he fired a bullet into the gas tank he was standing on, blowing up himself and everyone around.

If the nukes do go off from Biden’s descent into madness, I can imagine his last words being ‘Top of the world, America.’

This is one time we should all hope life does not imitate art.